The plot of the story begins by turning the pages of the notebook. In the center of the story is Hazro with his family. His homeland was Sasun, where Hazro's ancestors lived. There are scattered poor villages, people sowed wheat, weaved songs, myths and stories. Hazro grew up in this environment. It seemed that this life should accompany him for a long time, but the war destroys everything. Hazro feels boundless longing for his lost homeland and land. His gaze was always directed towards the Sasna mountains. He cannot forget his childhood, his memories, his land and birthplace. Hazro plays and thinks about his abandoned native village and dreams that one day he will be able to go to his native village, see the high Maruta mountain, the valleys and stones of his childhood.
“ The Apricot Field ” is a satirical short story. In a humorous tone, the author talks about the land holdings of the Armenian peasant, pointing out how well-known officials were able to take advantage of the Armenian peasant’s weakness and, through bribery, seize control over lands belonging to two villages.
Khonarh the Girl is one of the well-known stories by Axel Bakunts, which presents the discovery of hidden beauty and its distortion by reality. The work portrays the fate of Khnar, the destruction of her beauty and human happiness, showing how society and its unjust judgments destroy true values.
In Aksel Bakunts’s historical novel “Khachatur Abovyan”, the university environment of Dorpat(Tartu) in the first half of the 19th century is reconstructed, where the great Armenian enlightener studied. The author masterfully depicts the turbulent everyday life of the 1830s student “free brotherhood,” their ideological searches, and their clashes with tsarist order and local authorities. At the center of the narrative is the figure of Abovyan, imbued with patriotism and a thirst for knowledge, while the symbolic story of the ascent of Mount Ararat becomes the core of his spiritual awakening and national consciousness.